Say You, Say Me
Say You, Say Me is a song written by Lionel Richie in 1985 Richie wrote it for the film White Nights. - The Night of the decision at the Oscar ceremony in 1986, the song won in the category of Best Song. After Separate Lives Say You, Say Me was the second number -one hit from the movie soundtrack.
History
Director Taylor Hackford asked Richie, for White Nights - The Night of the decision to write the theme song and after Richie had seen the film, he agreed. A few weeks later told Richie's manager in charge at Columbia Pictures that although he had written a song, but this was not called White Nights. After Hackford had heard a demo of Say You, Say Me, they approved the song.
Problems prepared the publication. The soundtrack album for the film should appear with Atlantic Records, but Richie was with Motown Records and was busy with the work on his next studio album, should be represented on the Say You, Say Me. The record label agreed that the song would not indeed appear on the soundtrack album, but could do as a single advertising for the film. Gary Lemel, director of the Department of Music at Columbia Pictures film, later declared that the soundtrack album would have sold much better when Say You, Say Me would have been represented on it.
Publication
Say You, Say Me was released in October 1985 and became a worldwide number -one hit in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. For various reasons, the publication of the next studio album until August 1986 was delayed so that its original title of Say You, Say Me was changed to Dancing on the Ceiling, because this was also the name of the next single release.
At the Academy Awards in 1986, the song won in the category Best Song, it also won the Golden Globe Award / Best Original Song. In the episode The Incredible Journey in a private plane from The Simpsons Richie parodied in a guest appearance even on Homer's wish his own song and sang: Hey You, Beer Me
2012 published along with Richie Rasmus Seebach, a new version of his song, which reached number 3 in Denmark.